I started to use fedora a few months ago and really like it. The main problem I find with it is they seem too willing to update too quickly. I was speaking on a forum about the problems I was having (Kernel update 2107 had real problems) I was told "core 5 is very new, it will get more stable over the coming months"... I kind'a feel like they should make core 5 as stable and as good as it can be and keep it going for about a year or two from when it is completely setled. The only reason that I am a little worried is I'm pretty sure yum will update me to core 6 automatically if i forget to "--exclude" everytime I do a update
Still, it is a really lovely distro (I know it sounds like I slagged it off)... but give it a go : D
I'm sorry for you; I've only ever had two panic attacks but I know that they are not very nice; the first time I was lucky enough to be in hospital so the hyper-ventialating didn't cause me to pass out, the second time I was on my own and blacked out (guess I was lucky to not have any serious injury).
I've recently finished my second year of my degree but I had a little worry issues when I was doing my exams... If I tell you how I went about doing it you can just do the opposite... I started revising on the day of the exam (which makes you even more nervous then the exam starts at 9.30am) - this is a bad idea. Ideally you would know everything you feel you need to know the night before and then in the morning (after a good nights sleep) you would wake up and read over your condensed notes once and get on your way with enough time to not have to worry about being late.
I hadn't been eating 3 meals a day for a few weeks... this was causing me very bad stomach aches and feelings of sickness, which makes everything worse... 3 meals a day is very important - you might feel like dinner (by that I mean the midday meal) isn't important but if you keep missing it you'll really feel it.
Thirdly, and maybe most importantly, when you get in make a plan of the questions you are going to answer or jot down main points you think you might forgett (I don't know how your exam is structured, mine is 4 questions in 3 hours so I can do this easily... if you have a lot it might not be feasable.
Anyway, just some advice... someone should learn from my example because god knows I won't...
That is perhaps the best analogy I've ever read of the situation and this will finally enable me to explain to my mum why I'm so against DRM... thank-you.
I agree completely, no one should be barred from having access to their governments documents because they can't afford some software... although I wonder what closed standard they were using that couldn't be opened by free aplications. ".doc" opens fine in Oo,.pdf's open fine in Xpdf... Still, it is a good move from the side of being able to access the data in years to come (and it's good for open source as a whole)
no they won't, they'll leave his company because they have an un-natural level of trust in MS. Some people think that MS can do no wrong, and they are the majority of computer users...
Just thought I'd make a comment about the name "Whigs", you are right that it is a strange name for them to use but (and you might be aware, so if you are sorry) but that name was originally very insulting. There was the Whigs and the Tories; one was a bog and the other was a group of theives... It'd be like them calling themselves the "Theft party"... which would be, admitedly, strange
maxim isn't pr0n anyway, its just a "lads mag"... that means that there is a little nudity (about the same that you get on page 3) and some crazy stories about dogs that ate people or aliens who stole lawn furniture... from the sublime to the insane, right?
well I'd only ask on a forum, not the people who wrote the software... besides, if someone doesn't want to answer the question then they can just ignore it... I neither force people to read it or reply to it. Besides, I now like easy questions, they are a good way of me helping people with no effort... I've even spent over an hour searching round to try and help a person who couldn't figure out what was going; it's a bit of give and take or karma or something...
i've had to read a lot of articles in this way over the last couple of years... for some reason some journals don't let you download PDF and have everything in this "fixed image" type. I've never even got past the first 2 pages of any article, it's just too annoying, also it makes it hard to navigate around and search, also you can't copy it down to have locally easily. Very annoying.
To some extent I know where your coming from... but I often just don't have the time or inclination (or in the case of the source code, the knowledge) to do a lot of those things when the solution is really simple...
I've asked questions before as the first way I tried to get help because pretty much any user could answer it in 10 seconds but it would have taken me 2 hours to find it (this instance was actually on my first full day with linux). I did get a reply which is nice... infact I've only once got a RTFM (maybe it's just a nice forum).
I even respond to people who are having the same problem I have already answered because I like to be nice; also I can just copy and paste it over from where I've posted it before. what often annoys me is when people don't come back and say if it worked and say thanks
you say it should all work out of the box but the distro is totally free speech, so if you only used open stuff like ogg then it would all work out of the box. You can't really blame them for having principles even if they make it slightly more difficult for people - also with some stuff there is patent issues because of the crazy laws which exist in this area and not everyone is open source
well, i'll give you that one... I actually removed my kernal by accident not so long ago and then couldn't boot into it. That took some time to sort out. Still, it was my fault and I'm not going to blame fedora for trusting that the super-user should know what they are doing. It also shows you the importance of back-ups.
well, the article isn't really about this, but as a fedora user I feel like I should at least counter some of your claims:
YUM works very well in FC5, it has made keeping software up to date really easy, far more than on windows. everything does it pretty much strait away; so for me it's great. They do have a GUI one aswell, but that doesn't seem to be as fast and I like the information... so run it from the command line
You also don't need to look through random websites, you already get 3 repositories with the distro, but it's really easy to add another (I've got livna) in there. These will contain pretty much all the software you could ever want to find
you really should consider trying fedora again. it's such a good little OS. anyway, if you do you should go to http://www.fedorafaq.org/ it contains a load of helpful information about how to get everything going. Also, it's not fedora's fault that some proprietary stuff doesn't work out of the box - it's free speech and wants to stay that way - we really should be praising them for this, not condeming them because it might take a little more effort to get some things working. Anyway, give it a go.
I'm ashamed to reply to this on this point because it makes it makes me seem like a pedantic nerd... but I'm drunk so what the hay...
Marie antoinette never said let them eat cake, she said let them eat brionche, which admittedly is like cake, but it dervived from bred and would have been far more available at the time...
Next you'll be saying that it was lady Godiva who was naked and not the horse... tut.
I guess because I only really use Oo, Firefox and the terminal I never really have a lot to do with that stuff. Also I hadn't noticed that the reason why it's called Gaim is because of the "G" thing... who says you can't learn things on/.
I noticed the K thing with KDE when I used SUSE and SLAX but I've not really noticed a "G" thing with Gnome... I'm strugling to think of anything really that I use that has the "G" thing... (well, there is Same GNOME... but thats not got G as a prefix)
in all fairness there is very little to say about a cure for cancer if it turns out to be true other than "good. glad we figured this one out" - it hardly makes for interesting comments. Now a good ol' troll on MS can lead to thousands of opinions and is really the basis of pretty much all tech discussions... which is why we find it so easy to talk about
I bet it could be quite popular. There will be loads of people from places like this where it has become a standard joke who will want to see if it can ever live up to the years of hype... I'm predicting a success
slightly offtopic but I love those books, can you really get a game of them? I saw that they'd be some more coming out in book form but I bet they'll never get to my country. If such a thing doesn't exist... why hasn't someone made one (for linux)?
well I personally don't really like terrorism in any form and I did mention unionist terrorist also, so I don't think that i'm being hypercritical. I don't think that killing children who have no idea of any of the problems in the world is a "slap on the wrist" for what was done 400 years ago by someone they will never have the chance to learn about. The extent to which Englands actions in Ireland were terrorist is debatable... I would say that for the most part it wasn't - what Cromwell did was, though. Keeping Ireland split is sensible and something I have to support because people now live there who will not accept the break-up of the union - keeping it that way I think will cause less problems than anything else... so it doesn't really seem like English actions are still being detrimental to Ireland (we actually give a lot of money to Northern Ireland and with southern Ireland I think we are working towards a workable solution).
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it's not the bleeding edge that bothers me, infact I like it with the software, but I want a stable base for it
I started to use fedora a few months ago and really like it. The main problem I find with it is they seem too willing to update too quickly. I was speaking on a forum about the problems I was having (Kernel update 2107 had real problems) I was told "core 5 is very new, it will get more stable over the coming months"... I kind'a feel like they should make core 5 as stable and as good as it can be and keep it going for about a year or two from when it is completely setled. The only reason that I am a little worried is I'm pretty sure yum will update me to core 6 automatically if i forget to "--exclude" everytime I do a update
Still, it is a really lovely distro (I know it sounds like I slagged it off)... but give it a go : D
I'm sorry for you; I've only ever had two panic attacks but I know that they are not very nice; the first time I was lucky enough to be in hospital so the hyper-ventialating didn't cause me to pass out, the second time I was on my own and blacked out (guess I was lucky to not have any serious injury).
I've recently finished my second year of my degree but I had a little worry issues when I was doing my exams... If I tell you how I went about doing it you can just do the opposite... I started revising on the day of the exam (which makes you even more nervous then the exam starts at 9.30am) - this is a bad idea. Ideally you would know everything you feel you need to know the night before and then in the morning (after a good nights sleep) you would wake up and read over your condensed notes once and get on your way with enough time to not have to worry about being late.
I hadn't been eating 3 meals a day for a few weeks... this was causing me very bad stomach aches and feelings of sickness, which makes everything worse... 3 meals a day is very important - you might feel like dinner (by that I mean the midday meal) isn't important but if you keep missing it you'll really feel it.
Thirdly, and maybe most importantly, when you get in make a plan of the questions you are going to answer or jot down main points you think you might forgett (I don't know how your exam is structured, mine is 4 questions in 3 hours so I can do this easily... if you have a lot it might not be feasable.
Anyway, just some advice... someone should learn from my example because god knows I won't...
will this be a step closer to us getting free episodes of CSI/Lost etc. If they are going to have adverts why not put on stuff like that?
That is perhaps the best analogy I've ever read of the situation and this will finally enable me to explain to my mum why I'm so against DRM... thank-you.
I agree completely, no one should be barred from having access to their governments documents because they can't afford some software... although I wonder what closed standard they were using that couldn't be opened by free aplications. ".doc" opens fine in Oo, .pdf's open fine in Xpdf... Still, it is a good move from the side of being able to access the data in years to come (and it's good for open source as a whole)
no they won't, they'll leave his company because they have an un-natural level of trust in MS. Some people think that MS can do no wrong, and they are the majority of computer users...
I wonder if there is anything that, along with lightening, couldn't be a leathal mix... Lightning and a cat could be leathal...
Just thought I'd make a comment about the name "Whigs", you are right that it is a strange name for them to use but (and you might be aware, so if you are sorry) but that name was originally very insulting. There was the Whigs and the Tories; one was a bog and the other was a group of theives... It'd be like them calling themselves the "Theft party"... which would be, admitedly, strange
"Some of us are grownups and just because we don't like spam or viruses doesn't me we disapprove of nudity"
Some of us actively look for it... ; )
maxim isn't pr0n anyway, its just a "lads mag"... that means that there is a little nudity (about the same that you get on page 3) and some crazy stories about dogs that ate people or aliens who stole lawn furniture... from the sublime to the insane, right?
well I'd only ask on a forum, not the people who wrote the software... besides, if someone doesn't want to answer the question then they can just ignore it... I neither force people to read it or reply to it. Besides, I now like easy questions, they are a good way of me helping people with no effort... I've even spent over an hour searching round to try and help a person who couldn't figure out what was going; it's a bit of give and take or karma or something...
i've had to read a lot of articles in this way over the last couple of years... for some reason some journals don't let you download PDF and have everything in this "fixed image" type. I've never even got past the first 2 pages of any article, it's just too annoying, also it makes it hard to navigate around and search, also you can't copy it down to have locally easily. Very annoying.
To some extent I know where your coming from... but I often just don't have the time or inclination (or in the case of the source code, the knowledge) to do a lot of those things when the solution is really simple... I've asked questions before as the first way I tried to get help because pretty much any user could answer it in 10 seconds but it would have taken me 2 hours to find it (this instance was actually on my first full day with linux). I did get a reply which is nice... infact I've only once got a RTFM (maybe it's just a nice forum). I even respond to people who are having the same problem I have already answered because I like to be nice; also I can just copy and paste it over from where I've posted it before. what often annoys me is when people don't come back and say if it worked and say thanks
you say it should all work out of the box but the distro is totally free speech, so if you only used open stuff like ogg then it would all work out of the box. You can't really blame them for having principles even if they make it slightly more difficult for people - also with some stuff there is patent issues because of the crazy laws which exist in this area and not everyone is open source
well, i'll give you that one... I actually removed my kernal by accident not so long ago and then couldn't boot into it. That took some time to sort out. Still, it was my fault and I'm not going to blame fedora for trusting that the super-user should know what they are doing. It also shows you the importance of back-ups.
toxic to you maybe, us silicon based lifeforms love the stuff...
well, the article isn't really about this, but as a fedora user I feel like I should at least counter some of your claims:
YUM works very well in FC5, it has made keeping software up to date really easy, far more than on windows. everything does it pretty much strait away; so for me it's great. They do have a GUI one aswell, but that doesn't seem to be as fast and I like the information... so run it from the command line
You also don't need to look through random websites, you already get 3 repositories with the distro, but it's really easy to add another (I've got livna) in there. These will contain pretty much all the software you could ever want to find
you really should consider trying fedora again. it's such a good little OS. anyway, if you do you should go to http://www.fedorafaq.org/ it contains a load of helpful information about how to get everything going. Also, it's not fedora's fault that some proprietary stuff doesn't work out of the box - it's free speech and wants to stay that way - we really should be praising them for this, not condeming them because it might take a little more effort to get some things working. Anyway, give it a go.
I'm ashamed to reply to this on this point because it makes it makes me seem like a pedantic nerd... but I'm drunk so what the hay...
Marie antoinette never said let them eat cake, she said let them eat brionche, which admittedly is like cake, but it dervived from bred and would have been far more available at the time...
Next you'll be saying that it was lady Godiva who was naked and not the horse... tut.
touche.
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I guess because I only really use Oo, Firefox and the terminal I never really have a lot to do with that stuff. Also I hadn't noticed that the reason why it's called Gaim is because of the "G" thing... who says you can't learn things on
I noticed the K thing with KDE when I used SUSE and SLAX but I've not really noticed a "G" thing with Gnome... I'm strugling to think of anything really that I use that has the "G" thing... (well, there is Same GNOME... but thats not got G as a prefix)
in all fairness there is very little to say about a cure for cancer if it turns out to be true other than "good. glad we figured this one out" - it hardly makes for interesting comments. Now a good ol' troll on MS can lead to thousands of opinions and is really the basis of pretty much all tech discussions... which is why we find it so easy to talk about
I bet it could be quite popular. There will be loads of people from places like this where it has become a standard joke who will want to see if it can ever live up to the years of hype... I'm predicting a success
slightly offtopic but I love those books, can you really get a game of them? I saw that they'd be some more coming out in book form but I bet they'll never get to my country. If such a thing doesn't exist... why hasn't someone made one (for linux)?
well I personally don't really like terrorism in any form and I did mention unionist terrorist also, so I don't think that i'm being hypercritical. I don't think that killing children who have no idea of any of the problems in the world is a "slap on the wrist" for what was done 400 years ago by someone they will never have the chance to learn about. The extent to which Englands actions in Ireland were terrorist is debatable... I would say that for the most part it wasn't - what Cromwell did was, though. Keeping Ireland split is sensible and something I have to support because people now live there who will not accept the break-up of the union - keeping it that way I think will cause less problems than anything else... so it doesn't really seem like English actions are still being detrimental to Ireland (we actually give a lot of money to Northern Ireland and with southern Ireland I think we are working towards a workable solution).